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two more of my men mounted step by step, prodding with 

 their bayonets above them till they ascertained there were 

 no more Pandies in hiding there. 



"When I re-emerged from the staircase Hodson had 

 been borne away, and his friend, who, I afterwards heard, 

 was our chief engineer, Brigadier Eobert Napier, had also 

 disappeared." 



